WEBVTT 1 00:00:34.560 --> 00:00:37.560 Well, one of these days, I promise I will look 2 00:00:37.719 --> 00:00:40.359 at the intro music. I'll figure out what's going on. 3 00:00:40.399 --> 00:00:44.359 The wonderful countdown here, really driving up, getting this pumped here. 4 00:00:44.960 --> 00:00:47.280 I am going to open the door today A man 5 00:00:47.320 --> 00:00:48.280 that's a door man. 6 00:00:48.320 --> 00:00:51.000 A door Matt, a door man for no one. I 7 00:00:51.039 --> 00:00:55.719 will be John. Uh, that was wild. We will talk 8 00:00:55.799 --> 00:00:56.320 about that. 9 00:00:56.399 --> 00:00:59.600 We have at least the opening game TV ratings to 10 00:00:59.600 --> 00:01:03.960 talk about, courtesy Mike Mitchell, plus everything UFL Week one here. 11 00:01:04.079 --> 00:01:06.799 Thanks everyone for joining us. First off, John, how are you? 12 00:01:07.680 --> 00:01:10.840 I'm good man. It was an interesting first week. As 13 00:01:11.159 --> 00:01:13.560 the old Native Americans saying goes, may you live in 14 00:01:13.560 --> 00:01:17.120 interesting times. That's not always a blessing. But we'll see 15 00:01:17.120 --> 00:01:18.840 what happens. I mean, there's going to be a lot 16 00:01:18.840 --> 00:01:22.560 of overreaction, understandable, but I think there's gonna be some 17 00:01:22.680 --> 00:01:25.799 legitimate reaction here. So we're gonna see. 18 00:01:26.439 --> 00:01:29.159 Yeah, And so we're here today, like and subscribe. We'll 19 00:01:29.159 --> 00:01:29.560 be back. 20 00:01:29.640 --> 00:01:32.599 The attempt is every week here during the UFL season. 21 00:01:32.640 --> 00:01:35.439 I was just telling John off camera, kind of just 22 00:01:35.599 --> 00:01:38.280 really busy times for me, thankfully good. So we will 23 00:01:38.319 --> 00:01:40.120 do our best to be here every week. I like 24 00:01:40.239 --> 00:01:42.799 the Tuesdays because we can do the TV ratings. But 25 00:01:42.840 --> 00:01:45.519 we were lucky today that we were blessed with at 26 00:01:45.599 --> 00:01:47.159 least the opening. Well, I don't know if that would 27 00:01:47.159 --> 00:01:49.280 admit your UFL management. I don't know if you feel 28 00:01:49.280 --> 00:01:51.599 blessed with that, but we'll talk to about that. So anyway, 29 00:01:51.760 --> 00:01:56.239 like and subscribe to free Row Retros jerseys given out 30 00:01:56.560 --> 00:01:59.439 to winners here once we get to four thousand subscribers, 31 00:02:00.439 --> 00:02:04.200 has a code for Dustin's Row Retros to get discounts. 32 00:02:04.200 --> 00:02:06.280 In the meantime, we're kind of co branding this year, 33 00:02:06.319 --> 00:02:08.639 So John, what is that? If you want ten percent 34 00:02:08.680 --> 00:02:11.120 off Row retros? But like and subscribe, give a thumbs up. 35 00:02:11.159 --> 00:02:14.319 Dustin's long friend, a longtime friend. He's even helping me 36 00:02:14.319 --> 00:02:16.599 out with a custom jersey I'm doing right now. But John, 37 00:02:16.639 --> 00:02:17.680 what would you want people to do? 38 00:02:18.000 --> 00:02:20.120 Well? I appreciate that, and Dustin has been awesome to 39 00:02:20.120 --> 00:02:22.120 work with for sure. Yeah. But if you go to 40 00:02:22.199 --> 00:02:25.479 Royal Retros and you use code j LS John Lewis 41 00:02:25.479 --> 00:02:28.000 Sports when you check out, you get ten percent off 42 00:02:28.080 --> 00:02:30.400 your entire order, So that that's awesome. I appreciate you. 43 00:02:30.439 --> 00:02:31.680 Always let me up plug that. 44 00:02:32.360 --> 00:02:34.680 Let's see that everyone's checking in here, So we'll go through. 45 00:02:34.719 --> 00:02:37.199 We'll do general thoughts on the weekend, we'll talk to 46 00:02:37.240 --> 00:02:39.360 the TV ratings, and then we'll go through the games. 47 00:02:39.400 --> 00:02:42.360 I did my best catching up, you know, baseball opening weekend. 48 00:02:42.400 --> 00:02:46.080 I was at the Mariners game yesterday, John, I kind 49 00:02:46.080 --> 00:02:48.479 of missed all of that at the end of the game, 50 00:02:48.520 --> 00:02:52.639 which David Well I was. You know, I was a 51 00:02:52.639 --> 00:02:54.199 little buzz last night just coming out. 52 00:02:54.199 --> 00:02:54.360 You know. 53 00:02:54.400 --> 00:02:56.560 We uber down and went to the game, and I 54 00:02:56.639 --> 00:02:58.919 was watching the Memphis game here and we were texting, 55 00:02:58.960 --> 00:03:01.319 and then we went to the game and I, you know, 56 00:03:01.719 --> 00:03:04.439 I caught the end of the game whatever. And I'm 57 00:03:04.479 --> 00:03:06.599 sitting here today and I go, wow, I completely kind 58 00:03:06.639 --> 00:03:09.479 of missed all of that, the engagement and everything at 59 00:03:09.479 --> 00:03:11.919 the end of the So we will talk through all that. Also, 60 00:03:12.039 --> 00:03:14.439 I was on Rod Peterson Show today, so check that 61 00:03:14.520 --> 00:03:16.960 out as well. The Canadians always like hearing of that. 62 00:03:17.000 --> 00:03:19.159 You know, I was how bad was the UFL kickoffs? 63 00:03:19.159 --> 00:03:21.719 So but we'll share with thoughts, John. I tweeted out 64 00:03:21.800 --> 00:03:23.240 last night and I'll see if I can pull it 65 00:03:23.319 --> 00:03:26.560 up here. But you know, a grade UFL you know, 66 00:03:26.639 --> 00:03:30.000 kickoff weekend. I had a lot of c's and d's 67 00:03:30.199 --> 00:03:33.039 in my group chat, you know, in my comments, What 68 00:03:33.159 --> 00:03:35.919 did you make of kind of just UFL weekend overall? 69 00:03:37.000 --> 00:03:41.319 Well, yeah, I mean I think see my for for 70 00:03:41.360 --> 00:03:43.960 a lot of this overall might be a little generous. 71 00:03:44.159 --> 00:03:45.879 Maybe you're grading on a curve here that there was 72 00:03:45.960 --> 00:03:49.319 some that were better than others. But yeah, I was 73 00:03:50.159 --> 00:03:52.919 we talked last week. I was very optimistic going in, 74 00:03:53.000 --> 00:03:56.879 or at least cautiously optimistic. Maybe not very optimistic. It's 75 00:03:56.919 --> 00:04:00.240 it's one week. You know, we don't need a off 76 00:04:00.319 --> 00:04:03.960 launch for a league that is entering the second season, 77 00:04:04.719 --> 00:04:09.479 So I'm willing to give it a break. I said 78 00:04:09.520 --> 00:04:11.199 last week. I was kind of talking out of both 79 00:04:11.240 --> 00:04:13.039 sides of my mouth. I'm interested to see what the 80 00:04:13.120 --> 00:04:16.360 ratings are, but I'm also almost ready to throw them 81 00:04:16.360 --> 00:04:19.639 out because because of March madness and a lot of 82 00:04:19.759 --> 00:04:21.839 and baseball and a lot of other things going on. 83 00:04:22.000 --> 00:04:25.160 So I think probably the UFL would like to throw 84 00:04:25.199 --> 00:04:27.879 those ratings out for this first week as well. 85 00:04:27.920 --> 00:04:30.560 It's really hard, and I was talking about this with 86 00:04:30.720 --> 00:04:33.199 Rod and everything too, like it's just the worst time, 87 00:04:33.240 --> 00:04:35.240 and I know they did decent ratings last year. We'll 88 00:04:35.240 --> 00:04:37.040 talk through the game I haven't pulled up one point 89 00:04:37.079 --> 00:04:38.800 one eight one last year. 90 00:04:38.680 --> 00:04:42.279 So to give the context Saturday day for that, I 91 00:04:42.319 --> 00:04:43.399 thought it was good. At the time. 92 00:04:43.439 --> 00:04:46.240 You're going up, as we've said before, March madness and 93 00:04:46.560 --> 00:04:47.720 baseball and everything. 94 00:04:47.920 --> 00:04:49.279 I mean, that's all that I saw. 95 00:04:49.360 --> 00:04:51.959 Obviously I'm seeing the UFL teams because I followed them 96 00:04:51.959 --> 00:04:54.680 and kind of engage in that. But you know, algorithmically, 97 00:04:55.120 --> 00:04:57.040 it's a really tough weekend to kind of break in, 98 00:04:57.160 --> 00:05:01.560 I think, and just even get any casual fans and 99 00:05:01.839 --> 00:05:05.040 no disrespect. But until the game last night, I thought 100 00:05:05.040 --> 00:05:07.399 the first three games really had nothing to write home 101 00:05:07.439 --> 00:05:09.360 about it. I know you said the Memphis game got 102 00:05:09.639 --> 00:05:12.160 more exciting than the second half, but that first half 103 00:05:12.519 --> 00:05:15.199 Sunday morning, I mean that was when Rod and everyone 104 00:05:15.279 --> 00:05:18.920 was texting me, I'm home, I'm watching this game. What's 105 00:05:19.000 --> 00:05:21.879 going on? Why is there anyone here? We can talk 106 00:05:21.920 --> 00:05:24.279 through attendance as well, but you know, you know, down 107 00:05:24.319 --> 00:05:27.399 across the board, I think Memphis only had forty three 108 00:05:27.519 --> 00:05:30.560 hundred people, which is if the UFL is putting that out, 109 00:05:30.600 --> 00:05:33.319 then that's obviously the high end of kind of tickets distributed. 110 00:05:33.399 --> 00:05:36.120 So to me, it was tough that way where even 111 00:05:36.160 --> 00:05:39.680 if ratings come in decently and we'll talk to you know, 112 00:05:39.720 --> 00:05:43.160 six hundred ninety thousand for the opening game, I don't 113 00:05:43.519 --> 00:05:46.240 feel like you saw a lot from a casual fan 114 00:05:46.399 --> 00:05:48.879 that would bring you back next week. Mike Mitchell, I 115 00:05:48.879 --> 00:05:51.079 guess as well put it up on here just to 116 00:05:51.240 --> 00:05:54.160 go with our thoughts. You know, the first game peaked 117 00:05:54.639 --> 00:05:56.839 in the first fifteen minutes, as you would you know, 118 00:05:56.839 --> 00:06:00.000 eight hundred and forty four thousand dropped average six hundred nine, 119 00:06:00.600 --> 00:06:02.879 so obviously peaked. You would like to see that peak 120 00:06:02.920 --> 00:06:06.120 at the end. Gives us a gauge. Any comments I 121 00:06:06.199 --> 00:06:07.680 kind of rambled there. Any thoughts on that. 122 00:06:08.079 --> 00:06:10.120 No, I think it peaked in the first fifteen minutes 123 00:06:10.160 --> 00:06:12.079 because a lot of people tuned in, and I think 124 00:06:12.120 --> 00:06:15.720 they saw not necessarily the product on the field. I 125 00:06:15.720 --> 00:06:20.800 thought the broadcast was below average. I mean, frankly, you know, 126 00:06:21.720 --> 00:06:24.959 the fans deserve better than what I think Fox is 127 00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:29.680 giving them. It was interesting to see the how different 128 00:06:29.879 --> 00:06:32.800 the Fox the two Fox games were from the two 129 00:06:33.160 --> 00:06:35.759 ESPN games, and read you and I have talked before. 130 00:06:35.879 --> 00:06:38.560 Usually the Fox presentation has been so much better than 131 00:06:38.560 --> 00:06:41.759 the ESPN. Not that the ESPN presentation was bad but 132 00:06:41.839 --> 00:06:45.560 frankly Fox was better and there was no pregame. It 133 00:06:45.600 --> 00:06:47.399 was one of the things that I talked about when 134 00:06:47.480 --> 00:06:50.759 I said that I think Fox can make this a thing. 135 00:06:51.360 --> 00:06:54.519 How about at least maybe a ten minute pre game 136 00:06:54.519 --> 00:06:57.639 that gives you a little something. ESPN did that, and 137 00:06:57.680 --> 00:07:02.240 I don't understand why Fox did not. Joel Klatt does 138 00:07:02.240 --> 00:07:05.160 a great job. Give me Kevin Kugler and Joel Klatt 139 00:07:05.319 --> 00:07:08.319 to there you go, Leon Knows. Give me two guys 140 00:07:08.399 --> 00:07:12.399 who I think have a really, you know, a lot 141 00:07:12.439 --> 00:07:15.519 of interest in this league. Joel Clatt. Every time I 142 00:07:15.519 --> 00:07:17.959 hear him speak, it's like I'm learning something from him. 143 00:07:18.040 --> 00:07:21.399 I mean, he's so good. And Kevin Kugler has just 144 00:07:21.560 --> 00:07:24.639 like legitimate excitement for the league. At one point, Kurt 145 00:07:24.680 --> 00:07:28.160 Menafee called called the Houston Rough next to Houston Rough Riders. 146 00:07:28.519 --> 00:07:30.839 I mean, what are we doing here? At some point? 147 00:07:30.879 --> 00:07:33.439 And you know, you have to get people in here 148 00:07:33.600 --> 00:07:36.519 who are invested. He fumbled so many times it's almost 149 00:07:36.600 --> 00:07:39.600 like he's parachuted in and he's just not interested in 150 00:07:39.639 --> 00:07:43.720 this league. For maybe the casuals, they don't really care. 151 00:07:44.279 --> 00:07:47.879 You obviously know it wasn't the Houston rough Riders for us, 152 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:50.680 you know, hardcore fans. It's that's not what we want 153 00:07:50.720 --> 00:07:54.120 to see. It's almost it's almost insulting to watch something 154 00:07:54.199 --> 00:07:56.480 like that. And I hate to be hard on announcers. 155 00:07:56.519 --> 00:07:59.319 I'm not. I mean, you can go to my channel 156 00:07:59.399 --> 00:08:01.959 and see from about twenty years ago when I attempted 157 00:08:01.959 --> 00:08:04.639 to call college football play by play. It's very hard 158 00:08:04.680 --> 00:08:06.360 to do and I was no good at it, and 159 00:08:06.360 --> 00:08:08.600 that's why I'm sitting in my basement talking UFL with you. 160 00:08:09.240 --> 00:08:13.800 So we but there are people who are very good 161 00:08:13.920 --> 00:08:16.600 in the Fox stable, and I don't know why they 162 00:08:16.639 --> 00:08:19.040 continue to make Kurt Menafee the number one play by 163 00:08:19.079 --> 00:08:22.000 play guy for those kinds of things. As a Seahawks fan, 164 00:08:22.480 --> 00:08:25.160 he was the play by play guy for you know, 165 00:08:25.199 --> 00:08:29.199 Seahawks preseason and it was brutal every time. I'm just 166 00:08:29.680 --> 00:08:32.840 he's a fine studio host. But if the if Fox 167 00:08:32.879 --> 00:08:34.840 wants to make this a thing, there are a lot 168 00:08:34.879 --> 00:08:37.000 of ways to improve it from what we saw Friday 169 00:08:37.080 --> 00:08:39.960 night and what we frankly saw Saturday afternoon. And I 170 00:08:40.000 --> 00:08:43.200 think that's one piece of it. Yeah, ran over. 171 00:08:43.480 --> 00:08:44.679 No, And I agree. 172 00:08:44.720 --> 00:08:47.360 It's interesting because, like I said, people really do have 173 00:08:47.399 --> 00:08:49.759 their flavor. If you want the you know, esp under 174 00:08:49.799 --> 00:08:53.399 the Fox side. You know what I feel like a 175 00:08:53.399 --> 00:08:56.360 lot on the ESPN at folks is you get the 176 00:08:56.679 --> 00:08:58.159 not all the time in the heads of generous, you 177 00:08:58.200 --> 00:09:00.399 do get kind of the leftovers or the people working 178 00:09:00.440 --> 00:09:01.240 their way up. 179 00:09:01.399 --> 00:09:02.519 And so you get a lot of that. 180 00:09:02.639 --> 00:09:05.039 I turned on and you see Jordan Rodgers trying to 181 00:09:05.080 --> 00:09:07.440 sit there with whoever the side person was and airing 182 00:09:07.480 --> 00:09:09.039 the ESPN bets and they're. 183 00:09:08.799 --> 00:09:12.120 Like, what's like, what's the point swing of this game? 184 00:09:12.360 --> 00:09:14.519 Well, you know, we had the four quarterbacks and it's 185 00:09:14.519 --> 00:09:16.919 really they just don't even know what to talk about 186 00:09:16.960 --> 00:09:19.039 because you can't talk about betting on this league, and 187 00:09:19.799 --> 00:09:21.799 there's no one does anyway, and you certainly aren't going 188 00:09:21.840 --> 00:09:24.000 to bet on this game this league in week one 189 00:09:24.399 --> 00:09:26.639 when you don't even really know who these starting quarterbacks 190 00:09:26.679 --> 00:09:28.480 are going to be or whether they're going to play. 191 00:09:28.480 --> 00:09:31.600 Are they really doing two or they you know, we're okay, 192 00:09:31.639 --> 00:09:33.240 we're going to do one one quarter and one of 193 00:09:33.240 --> 00:09:35.600 the next. If the drive carries over, then we'll I mean, 194 00:09:35.679 --> 00:09:38.679 just I get all that, and it's league building and 195 00:09:38.759 --> 00:09:40.039 we're trying to figure out all this stuff. 196 00:09:40.039 --> 00:09:42.080 But then the announcers have nothing to talk about either. 197 00:09:43.120 --> 00:09:46.120 But I will say in ESPN's defense here, they did 198 00:09:46.159 --> 00:09:49.399 not beat us over the head with the gambling. I 199 00:09:49.440 --> 00:09:52.399 thought they integrated it pretty well. It wasn't you know. 200 00:09:53.039 --> 00:09:56.440 And hey man, Joe Tessitur was selling it to us too, 201 00:09:57.000 --> 00:09:59.279 But there they didn't, you know. I think last year 202 00:09:59.320 --> 00:10:01.840 there was too much talk they really tried to just 203 00:10:01.960 --> 00:10:03.879 kind of beat you over the head with the with 204 00:10:04.039 --> 00:10:07.120 the whole gambling aspect of it. I really like the 205 00:10:07.120 --> 00:10:09.120 way that they integrated it a little more and it 206 00:10:09.159 --> 00:10:12.200 seemed a lot more natural. But you're right, it's I 207 00:10:12.200 --> 00:10:14.559 don't know where these point spreads came from. I mean, 208 00:10:14.679 --> 00:10:17.759 you know, and ESPN had prop bets, which that was interesting, 209 00:10:18.080 --> 00:10:20.799 but yeah, we had draft kings and bet MGM. I 210 00:10:20.799 --> 00:10:22.799 don't know if they ever I never could find anything 211 00:10:22.840 --> 00:10:25.240 as far as point spreads. I did see the futures 212 00:10:25.240 --> 00:10:27.240 on there, so I don't know where they got them. 213 00:10:27.600 --> 00:10:29.679 I am interested to see what the point spreads will 214 00:10:29.720 --> 00:10:32.240 be this week now where we have a little taste 215 00:10:32.279 --> 00:10:35.120 of what these teams might be. But again it's over 216 00:10:35.200 --> 00:10:37.759 reaction Monday all the time. After you know, a weekend 217 00:10:37.759 --> 00:10:39.759 of what we see for the first week, it's it's 218 00:10:39.759 --> 00:10:41.000 still coming together. 219 00:10:42.080 --> 00:10:45.080 In terms of just kind of the slow kick gob 220 00:10:45.200 --> 00:10:47.320 lyon here. As the comment players threatening to walk out 221 00:10:47.440 --> 00:10:50.240 lead the league didn't help matters in attendance, Erratians, I 222 00:10:50.279 --> 00:10:54.200 agree with that. You also had this weird excuse me for, 223 00:10:54.279 --> 00:10:56.279 and I'm really battling the illness of this. If I'm 224 00:10:56.360 --> 00:10:58.720 mute in comm I'm totally fine. I just said I 225 00:10:58.799 --> 00:11:01.200 am sick, and then the Mariners straighten up. Ron's like, 226 00:11:01.240 --> 00:11:04.799 now you sound really sick. But the you know you 227 00:11:04.919 --> 00:11:07.000 had that, we have obviously had the impending strike. 228 00:11:07.519 --> 00:11:11.480 Then we have Kevin. What's Kevin Seifert? Right? I should 229 00:11:11.679 --> 00:11:15.000 Kevin friends and show Kevin. You know. The players have 230 00:11:15.159 --> 00:11:15.919 issued a letter. 231 00:11:16.360 --> 00:11:18.519 We're going to give it to Dwayne Johnson when he 232 00:11:18.559 --> 00:11:21.000 shows up tonight. They've advertised that the Rock is going 233 00:11:21.039 --> 00:11:21.639 to be industan. 234 00:11:22.120 --> 00:11:22.480 Uh. 235 00:11:22.600 --> 00:11:25.240 It's old news Friday now at this point, considering they 236 00:11:25.240 --> 00:11:27.759 played the weekend. But I thought that was a very 237 00:11:27.799 --> 00:11:31.759 poorly written letter, a very poorly conceived kind of plan 238 00:11:31.960 --> 00:11:33.799 that this is what we're going to do because we're 239 00:11:33.840 --> 00:11:36.879 so frustrated with Darryl and Russ Brandon and we haven't 240 00:11:36.919 --> 00:11:38.919 been able to get through and you know, we want 241 00:11:38.960 --> 00:11:41.440 to get the Rock involved and kind of like corner 242 00:11:41.600 --> 00:11:43.879 him into this thing of like, well, we know you 243 00:11:43.960 --> 00:11:46.600 don't care, but you have more money and power, so 244 00:11:46.679 --> 00:11:47.799 please get involved in that. 245 00:11:48.159 --> 00:11:49.879 Then you had to come out that the Rock wasn't 246 00:11:49.879 --> 00:11:50.759 going to be there. 247 00:11:50.840 --> 00:11:52.519 But then it was a plane issue and he was 248 00:11:52.519 --> 00:11:54.799 supposed to go from Hawaii, and then he had did 249 00:11:54.799 --> 00:11:57.200 you watch all that where he posted like the pilot 250 00:11:57.240 --> 00:12:00.679 came out and got down anyway, so the Rock wasn't there. 251 00:12:01.440 --> 00:12:03.559 And then yeah, then the ratings were kind of stinky. 252 00:12:04.000 --> 00:12:06.240 He was advertised to the media and they pulled out. 253 00:12:06.279 --> 00:12:07.960 Like the whole thing was just weird. So like I 254 00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:10.799 don't even know what Fox or you Fella or anyone 255 00:12:10.840 --> 00:12:13.679 expected going into this. It was really just the weirdest 256 00:12:13.799 --> 00:12:16.399 Friday of like, okay, is this even happening here? 257 00:12:16.440 --> 00:12:17.240 Like what's going on? 258 00:12:17.559 --> 00:12:19.840 Well, and then you had you know, it was at Houston. 259 00:12:20.360 --> 00:12:23.240 I did do some research and I found I finally 260 00:12:23.279 --> 00:12:26.039 found the answer. America's Dome or whatever they call it 261 00:12:26.039 --> 00:12:29.279 there in Saint Louis was not available because the World 262 00:12:29.399 --> 00:12:32.600 of Asphalt Convention was happening, so they could not play 263 00:12:32.639 --> 00:12:36.639 Friday Night at the Dome. Still, I still believe they 264 00:12:36.679 --> 00:12:40.519 could have found a different game other than at Houston. 265 00:12:40.879 --> 00:12:43.759 You know, we kept joking about it, what a gamble 266 00:12:43.799 --> 00:12:47.720 you're gonna take here? No pun intended with Houston to 267 00:12:47.919 --> 00:12:49.960 you know, have this Friday night game there. You know 268 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:52.600 it's outdoors, which you know they all are except for 269 00:12:52.639 --> 00:12:57.480 San Antonio, I guess in Saint Louis. But but it was, 270 00:12:57.559 --> 00:12:59.879 you know, they didn't show up. They didn't really show 271 00:13:00.159 --> 00:13:03.000 that much when it was at TDECU in the first place. 272 00:13:03.840 --> 00:13:06.240 They showed up less at Rice because people said Rice. 273 00:13:06.360 --> 00:13:08.120 It was. It was just a terrible set up all 274 00:13:08.159 --> 00:13:11.240 the way around. And then you know, I it was 275 00:13:11.279 --> 00:13:13.840 funny when I did a video and I had some 276 00:13:14.000 --> 00:13:16.000 and I talked about it was it was a gamble 277 00:13:16.039 --> 00:13:18.759 and will Houston fans show up? And somebody said, well, 278 00:13:18.879 --> 00:13:21.320 you're going to be making another video where you're apologizing 279 00:13:21.320 --> 00:13:23.440 to all the Houston fans, and that's not a video 280 00:13:23.480 --> 00:13:26.120 that's gonna get made. So we saw what was it, 281 00:13:26.320 --> 00:13:29.240 seven thousand announced and you know a lot of a 282 00:13:29.279 --> 00:13:31.000 lot of people dressed as empty chairs. 283 00:13:31.279 --> 00:13:33.399 Yeah. I wanted to pull that up too. That's actually 284 00:13:33.399 --> 00:13:33.960 a great point. 285 00:13:34.399 --> 00:13:36.600 And we had talked and just speaking kind of ratings, 286 00:13:36.639 --> 00:13:38.519 then we will do all the games here. Because I 287 00:13:38.559 --> 00:13:42.320 got thoughts about Donald and the Panthers, and we've got 288 00:13:42.320 --> 00:13:44.600 stuff about that, and the posted in the post game 289 00:13:44.639 --> 00:13:46.639 with the Stallions and the defenders and all that. 290 00:13:46.679 --> 00:13:49.759 But uh, you you have if I'm looking here. 291 00:13:49.639 --> 00:13:51.519 At the schedule and I can pop this up, you know, 292 00:13:51.600 --> 00:13:53.279 because we had talked about this, and when we did 293 00:13:53.279 --> 00:13:56.159 the schedule breakdown, you know, so obviously Houston on that 294 00:13:56.240 --> 00:13:58.399 you knew that was going to be poor next week. 295 00:13:58.440 --> 00:14:00.559 I don't think ford Field is getting shown up for 296 00:14:00.600 --> 00:14:02.480 that as well. And then you do have a Friday 297 00:14:02.519 --> 00:14:07.000 in Birmingham week three TBD on that and a Birmingham 298 00:14:07.039 --> 00:14:09.159 and weather and heat and is it gonna be it 299 00:14:09.240 --> 00:14:10.159 is the tornado coming? 300 00:14:10.279 --> 00:14:10.399 You know? 301 00:14:10.440 --> 00:14:12.759 We have other was the lightning strikes kind of all that. 302 00:14:13.000 --> 00:14:15.639 We'll see what that goes. You just aren't setting yourself 303 00:14:15.759 --> 00:14:17.840 up a lot. You're back at ford Field. You're just 304 00:14:17.879 --> 00:14:21.200 not setting yourself up well for that. We do have 305 00:14:21.240 --> 00:14:23.159 the final numbers on here. Let me make sure I 306 00:14:23.159 --> 00:14:25.240 point that up by see Max asking that I have 307 00:14:25.320 --> 00:14:29.080 two of the tabs or things bookmarks here Houston seven 308 00:14:29.159 --> 00:14:31.159 thousand again, and these are all on the high end. 309 00:14:31.240 --> 00:14:32.039 Right, they're the leads. 310 00:14:32.080 --> 00:14:33.759 These are announced crowds, right. 311 00:14:35.080 --> 00:14:38.679 Seven thousand that for Houston, ten for Arlington. I would 312 00:14:38.759 --> 00:14:41.440 feel good about that, just kind of given kind of 313 00:14:41.519 --> 00:14:44.399 given them back and forth of that Memphis sub five 314 00:14:44.440 --> 00:14:47.279 and then d C normally does about sixteen seventeen thousand 315 00:14:47.360 --> 00:14:50.000 if memory serves down to about twelve thousand for that 316 00:14:50.240 --> 00:14:52.080 For this Sunday night game. I mean, that's kind of 317 00:14:52.120 --> 00:14:55.480 your prime time, you know, Sunday night, that's kind of 318 00:14:55.600 --> 00:14:58.399 DC gets out a lot. Stallion's coming in. I should 319 00:14:58.440 --> 00:15:00.320 have you know, it could have been a really high 320 00:15:00.360 --> 00:15:02.360 atmosphere and the pretty live cluster. 321 00:15:03.440 --> 00:15:06.039 Yeah. And you know, again when we say announced crowds, 322 00:15:06.080 --> 00:15:11.320 anyone who's been around sports and professional college whatever, high 323 00:15:11.399 --> 00:15:14.679 level where you know seats matter and people and the 324 00:15:14.720 --> 00:15:17.799 fans matter. When you say announced crowd, that's not the 325 00:15:17.840 --> 00:15:20.559 crowd that showed up. Because I think if anyone watched 326 00:15:20.559 --> 00:15:24.120 that Memphis game, and frankly, Memphis is a lot better 327 00:15:24.159 --> 00:15:26.759 team and you know, so there there's not going to 328 00:15:26.799 --> 00:15:28.360 be I know, they lost, but there's not going to 329 00:15:28.399 --> 00:15:32.399 be a lot of excuses for those fans not to 330 00:15:32.440 --> 00:15:35.120 show up. Now, I will say the league needs to 331 00:15:35.440 --> 00:15:39.639 give them a solid here. They had an eleven o'clock 332 00:15:39.759 --> 00:15:43.840 am local time game. You're going up against the NCAA tournament, 333 00:15:43.919 --> 00:15:46.279 which unfortunately, I mean they didn't know at the time, 334 00:15:46.279 --> 00:15:48.759 but you know, the Tennessee volunteers are playing in the 335 00:15:48.759 --> 00:15:51.120 Sweet sixteen, so that's probably going to put a herd 336 00:15:51.159 --> 00:15:53.240 on the crowd. You've got the church crowd, who's not 337 00:15:53.279 --> 00:15:55.440 going to show up for an eleven o'clock game. There 338 00:15:55.440 --> 00:15:57.279 were just a lot of things that I thought could 339 00:15:57.279 --> 00:15:59.080 be wrong, and we talked about it last week. It 340 00:15:59.080 --> 00:16:02.759 felt like they maybe should should have flipped the d 341 00:16:02.919 --> 00:16:06.320 C Birmingham game with with that Memphis game, and I 342 00:16:06.320 --> 00:16:09.600 thought that might have been the better idea for that. Again, 343 00:16:09.639 --> 00:16:11.879 it's all about you know what's available and how you 344 00:16:11.919 --> 00:16:14.080 do it. I know there's strategy behind some of these things. 345 00:16:14.080 --> 00:16:16.960 I don't I don't understand what the strategy was there. 346 00:16:17.720 --> 00:16:19.720 Last comment here on this from me. 347 00:16:19.840 --> 00:16:21.679 We'll do a couple of comments and then we'll transition 348 00:16:21.759 --> 00:16:24.080 to the games here because I have a comment here 349 00:16:24.120 --> 00:16:27.039 that will lead to that. It's just hard and we've 350 00:16:27.080 --> 00:16:29.399 talked on here and people are always gonna talk ratings, 351 00:16:29.399 --> 00:16:31.879 and I've always said this on here, you the matchup 352 00:16:31.919 --> 00:16:33.759 doesn't necessarily right. You have a lot of people, oh 353 00:16:33.840 --> 00:16:37.720 you know the DC Birmingham game generally it's dates and timeslots, 354 00:16:37.759 --> 00:16:40.720 so you you do want to position you know, it's 355 00:16:40.759 --> 00:16:42.879 kind of like the horror car before the horse that way, 356 00:16:42.919 --> 00:16:45.720 So you want to position your best game in that 357 00:16:45.799 --> 00:16:47.799 best time slot. But I don't think people are watching 358 00:16:47.840 --> 00:16:51.200 the UFL based on the teams that are playing and 359 00:16:51.480 --> 00:16:52.720 then then the time slot. 360 00:16:52.720 --> 00:16:53.639 But I think the league, like. 361 00:16:53.600 --> 00:16:55.919 You said, needs to work on that because you look 362 00:16:55.960 --> 00:16:59.279 here at this the Friday night horrendous. So that let's 363 00:16:59.320 --> 00:17:01.399 look at just a couple comments here and then we'll 364 00:17:01.399 --> 00:17:04.279 have to that, you know, unforced errors made by the gravel. 365 00:17:05.119 --> 00:17:07.599 Aw does that time of attendance solid? The account tickets 366 00:17:07.599 --> 00:17:10.920 just should be dead? Where was the other one? Oh? 367 00:17:11.000 --> 00:17:12.880 Yeah here, so this will be where we transition. 368 00:17:13.440 --> 00:17:16.160 She got, Really, what's worse Houston's attendance or they're actually 369 00:17:16.200 --> 00:17:20.519 play on the field. Because here's the thing, right, Anthony Miller, 370 00:17:20.599 --> 00:17:22.519 and we're going to have our power rankings. We've had 371 00:17:22.559 --> 00:17:25.359 a lot of talk about, you know, Chris Johnson and 372 00:17:25.359 --> 00:17:29.359 everything for All Football Dot Com. Here the decision to 373 00:17:29.440 --> 00:17:31.759 keep critis to this year we said was bad. 374 00:17:31.799 --> 00:17:33.359 We kind of knew this was going to be bad. 375 00:17:33.400 --> 00:17:35.000 And then to kind of see what was going on 376 00:17:35.119 --> 00:17:38.880 here on the field, do you remove Curtis Johnson at 377 00:17:38.920 --> 00:17:41.279 this like what is your thoughts? A just on Houston 378 00:17:41.799 --> 00:17:45.279 the game right getting blown out by Saint Louis at home, 379 00:17:45.440 --> 00:17:47.680 but then just how bad they looked in the process. 380 00:17:48.160 --> 00:17:52.000 They didn't look competitive when you start talking about body language, 381 00:17:52.039 --> 00:17:53.839 you know, and I think it was like in the 382 00:17:53.880 --> 00:17:57.200 second quarter, it's like it was no, it was bad. 383 00:17:57.960 --> 00:18:00.680 There was one point where and they showed it a 384 00:18:00.680 --> 00:18:03.119 couple of different times where Tom Cable was talking to 385 00:18:03.200 --> 00:18:05.839 CJ and it almost felt like he was trying to 386 00:18:05.880 --> 00:18:10.599 tell him how to coach this team. Curtis Johnson looks 387 00:18:10.599 --> 00:18:13.039 a little lost sometimes on the sidelines, and I don't 388 00:18:13.119 --> 00:18:16.559 understand it's the criticism that we had last year. What 389 00:18:16.599 --> 00:18:18.559 we thought about going into this year was a surprise 390 00:18:18.599 --> 00:18:21.000 that he was coming back. You know, some of the 391 00:18:21.000 --> 00:18:23.480 play calling and I'm not play calling guy, but some 392 00:18:23.519 --> 00:18:26.839 of the play calling that we saw, I don't understand it. 393 00:18:26.880 --> 00:18:28.960 Now He's coached a lot more football than I have, 394 00:18:29.359 --> 00:18:31.400 but I did not understand a lot of it, and 395 00:18:31.480 --> 00:18:33.200 it led to what you're seeing right there on the 396 00:18:33.240 --> 00:18:36.359 screen thirty one to six, taking don't take anything away 397 00:18:36.359 --> 00:18:40.119 from Saint Louis. Manny Wilkins was incredible, and you know, 398 00:18:40.440 --> 00:18:44.680 I mean that team offensively and defensively, they were doing 399 00:18:44.680 --> 00:18:47.000 a lot of good things. But if Saint Louis had 400 00:18:47.039 --> 00:18:49.799 any questions or they really kind of needed it almost 401 00:18:49.839 --> 00:18:52.160